WI BIO - Dane Co - DELAPLAINE, George P.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, pp 283

George P. DELAPLAINE, a native of Philadelphia, PA, son of Joseph and Jane 
Ann DELAPLAINE, came to Milwaukee, WI, in Dec 1835, accompanied by Captain 
Garret VLIET, a U. S. Engineer, who during 1836 subdivided into sections 
Government lands situated in the land district of Milwaukee.

George P. DELAPLAINE settled in Milwaukee [Milwaukee County], WI, and during 
1837 had charge of the mercantile business of Solomon JUNEAU, an early 
pioneer of that locality, agent of the American Fur Company. In Jun 1838, 
George P. DELAPLAINE moved to Madison [Dane County], WI, and became secretary 
to the U. S. Commissioners of Public Buildings, who were then constructing 
the Territorial capitol. Subsequently he was appointed by Governor Henry 
DODGE, Auditor of Public Accounts for the Territory of WI, following which he 
served as private secretary for Governor DODGE, and then in 1848, upon the 
admission of WI as a State, acted in the same capacity for Governors NELSON, 
DEWEY, and William A. BARSTOW.

In 1861 George P. DELAPLAINE was appointed on the military staff of Governor 
Alexander RANDALL, and since then has resided in Madison, Dane County, WI. 
His father, who was an author and published in 1815 "Delaplaine's Repository 
of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters," died in 
Philadelphia, PA, in 1824. George P. DELAPLAINE was married in 1841 to Miss 
Emeline T. SMITH, by whom he had four daughters.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly